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Photo of the United Staes Supreme Court, with a seated figure holding a tablet of law.

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This Matter of Abortion

David M. Feldman

1986

Painting of young woman standing next to three men seated at a table with open books.

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The Difficult Question

Jacob Meyer de Haan

1889–1892

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The Common Names of Plants

Aaron Aaronsohn

1913

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Rabbis of Schwerin to Moses Mendelssohn

Rabbis of Schwerin

1772

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The Fake Doctor

1873

Page of Hebrew text with portrait of man with curly hair in center of page, surrounded by round frame with Hebrew words inside it.

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Self-Portrait of Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen

Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen

1719

Print with decorative border of man in robes wearing hat and holding a book with right hand and Latin heading.

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Jewish Doctor (Medico Giudeo)

Nicolas de Nicolay

1568

Bronze mortar decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked with the Hebrew letters mem and resh.

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Bronze Physician’s Mortar

Servius de Levis

16th Century

Illustration of bloodletting knife on right side of a manuscript page, with Judeo-Arabic text surrounding.

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Phlebotomy knife

Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji

18th Century

Woodcut portrait of man in hat and moustache and beard with Hebrew text on left and right sides of face.

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Portrait of Issachar Baer Teller

1637

Facing-page manuscript with illustration on right page depicting individual lying on operating table with two men in curly wigs in coats and breeches holding down his wrists and feet and another with his hand on patient's shoulders; and left page with Portuguese text only.

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Surgical Illustration

Samuel Benavente

1699

Facing-page manuscript with left-hand side of three framed images surrounded by flora and birds: the top image of two men holding a book and cup, the middle of man with curly hair and collar, and bottom of a bird; and right-hand side of Latin text surrounded by decorative flora.

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Otsar ha-ḥayim (Treasury of Life)

Jacob Tsahalon

1683